Week in Sloth

“Warehouse 13” on Syfy

Thursday 15

“Reign” (KWBQ-19 8pm) The CW’s soapy historical drama about Mary, Queen of Scots, has been renewed for a second season. By the way, teens, if you don’t want any spoilers about what’s to come, stop paying attention in history class.

Friday 16

“Barbara Walters: Her Story” (KOAT-7 8pm) Walters is retiring, but not without several weeks’ worth of guest appearances, farewell tours and tear-jerking specials.

“Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself” (KNME-5 9:30pm) Famed “participatory journalist” George Plimpton gets the “American Masters” treatment—even though he started something called The Paris Review.

Saturday 17

Haunted Houses (TCM 6pm) Turner pays tribute to some fine supernatural cinema with a 5-film pack of ghostly chillers: 1963’s The Haunting (6pm), 1973’s The Legend of Hell House (8pm), 1982’s Poltergeist (9:45pm), 1971’s Death By Invitation (12am) and 1962’s Burn, Witch, Burn. The highlight is Death By Invitation, a “dead witch seeks vengeance on her killers’ descendants” oddity directed by Ken Friedman, who went on to write cut gems White Line Fever (1975), Heart Like a Wheel (1983) and Johnny Handsome (1989).

Warehouse 13 (Syfy 7pm) Syfy’s never-quite-great-but-always-kinda-entertaining melange of “Friday the 13th: The Series” and the last scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark shuts down operations after five seasons.

“The Maya Rudolph Show” (KOB-4 9pm) Former “SNL”er Maya Rudolph is all kinds of awesome, but this vain attempt to revive the old “variety show” format just reeks of “summer replacement series.”

“Judge Judy Primetime” (KRQE-13 7pm) Wow, nothing says “We have no idea what to air over the summer!” quite like “Judge Judy Primetime.”

“ACM Presents: An All-Star Salute to the Troops” (KRQE-13 8pm) If you ever join the armed forces, you’d better like wrestlers, country music stars and redneck comedians, because they’re constantly showing up on base and saluting the troops.